Matt Ross triumphs in remaining impartial throughout Captain Fantastic, never pointing the finger or ridiculing anybody for their lifestyle choices.
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You really can’t fault Viggo Mortensen. When The Return of the King wrapped up the actor’s three-year reign as Aragorn, a leading character in the greatest fantasy epic ever made (and that includes The Hobbit), he could have gone on to be one of the biggest stars in the world. But what did he do instead? David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, and A Dangerous Method. John Hillcoat’s The Road. Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January. Add to that a surprisingly modest…
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“The film noir genre may well have spawned some of the finest feature films, yet it’s one that is seemingly consigned to a Hollywood of old, being a genre that is rarely touched upon in contemporary cinema. However, debutant Hossein Amini is inclined to buck the trend, as he brings Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Two Faces of January to the big screen”…
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In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
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A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
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